I pissed off a female programmer once - she was looking at some COBOL on her terminal, and I was kind of looking over her shoulder, and I remarked, to no one in particular, "Why do I get the feeling that I'm looking at stone axes and animal skins?" (this was back when ST:TOS was still on).
Same for PCB layouts. Most of my early ones have been done by women. However, the layouters that I currently use the most are men. Seems like it has changed.
BTW, in the division that I ran for a few years our R&D staff was about
25% female. The average age was also much higher than normal. Since we couldn't ask (at least not the women...) I can only guess but it was probably well over 40.
No. Out of the 250 or so working on the project there are only two or three I'd consider to be circuit designers. In another post in the thread I mentioned that I'd only known one female circuit designer and she didn't last long (she was terrible - and dumb).
BTW, what's your definition of "circuit designer".
Someone who designs circuits! That means starting with a spec or need and selecting electronic parts and inventing connection topologies, and doing the required math to predict that it will work. I do this by buying parts that wind up soldered to boards (per my drawings) but some people work in silicon, designing ICs, but the effects are pretty much the same.
What a circuit designer ain't is...
A tech who gets a reference design and fiddles with it a bit. That's OK, but it's not design because he didn't invent it and probably doesn't understand it.
Logic designers who work only at the gate-and-up level.
IC process types. They may design the transistors used in circuits, but they don't design the circuits.
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